Shoe-polishing device



H. C. COY. SHOE POLISHING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED ma. 1a. 1920.

Patented June 28, 1921.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 28, 1921.

Application filed February 18, 1920, Serial No. 359,548.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known'that I, HERBERT C. Cox, a

- citizen of the United States of America, re

sidin at Chicago, in'the county of Cook and tate of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe- Polishing Devices,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to shoe polishing devices, particularly of theportable type; and the objects of my improvement are:

First, the provision'of an improved construction intended for holding astrip of suitable material in proper position relative to the surface tobe polished when the shoe is on the foot of the wearer;

Second, to provide a shoe polishing device having means to restrainslipping of the device relative to the floor or other support,

Thlrd, to produce a device of the class, hereinafter described havingmeans to minimize slipping tendency of the shoe when in position forpolishing on the device 5 and Fourth, the production of a portabledevice for shoe polishing whereby to reduce manual effort required inoperation and to increase the efliciency of the device.

With the above and other related objects in View, my invention consistsin the novel features and the novel combination and arrangement of partsillustrated in the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthisspecification, and particularly pointed out in the claim hereuntoappended; it being understood that changes, variations and modificationsin the details of the invention within the scope of the claim, may beresorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of theadvantages.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view of the devicev andposition of parts when in use.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the portable polishing device.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section on line 33 on Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a cross section on line i -4: on Fi 3.

imilar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout theseveral views.

Described more in detail, the structure chosen to exemplify myimprovement includes a base having a set of lower parallel rods 6, 7sufficiently wide enough apart to ment hereinof my invention,

give a measure of stability, a set of upper parallel rods 8, 9,relatively closer together to afford a sufliciently'stable rest for theshoe on the wearer, end pieces 10, 11, in fixed relation to both sets ofsaidparallel rods and one or more rollers 12 rotatably mounted,

on said end pieces.

Among other things,' for the purposeof v avoiding injury to the surfaceof the floor or other support, and the further object of restrainingslippage of the device relative to the floor or theshoe on the wearerrelative to the device, the rods 6, 7, 8, 9, preferably are coated' withindia rubber in some form l3, 14, '15, '16. One method of accomplish lngthis is by employing india rubber tubing of sufliciently less crosssection than the rods on which the tubing is tov bemounted that be undertension and not slip relative tothef rod. r I do not limit my inventionto the use ofany substance for the purposeof restraining slippage of thedevice in relation to the floor or other support, nor do I intend to belimited to the employment of rubber when material for the purpose ofpreventing.slip-- page or protection against Inarring of floor or othersupport is used.

Preferably the rollers 12, consist of a pair, but it is obvious one ofsuch rollers,

instead of two rollers, will give good re sults andtherefore I donot-limit my invention to use oftwo such rollers,

As herein the rollers are turned of metal and have what are termedconvex flanges 17 near their ends. The pivots '18 are disposed inapertures 19 in end pieces 10, 11..

The lower parallel rods 6, 7 and the upper parallel rods 8, 9, herein,and the end pieces 10, 11,:are secured together by, screws 20.

In operation, as indicated, a polishing strip 21', denotes onemanner ofpolishing the fore part ofthe shoe; The shoe of the wearer is placedupon the upper parallel rolls, andv the polishing strip 21 laid flatmeans of over the top of the shoe and the ends ofthe o strip down insidebetween and under the two rolls and upward and the ends held by theoperator who sits erect and pulls easily, but

rapidly, back and forth a few times, over every part of the shoe to bepolished, By showing and specificalllythe embo'di do not intend e torestrict the raiige :of equivalents mbre'than is made necessary by theprior state of this art.

Havingf thu s fiilly described my inventiply 5 What I claim as new; anddesire to secure b'y' Letters-Patent, is-

In a shoe-polishing device, a hat in ga' setof lower parallel rodscoated with riibber,

a set ofupper parallel reds coated with rub- HERBERT c. COY.

